PROPOSED NATIVE DISPLAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 694, 25 June 1903, Page 9

PROPOSED NATIVE DISPLAY.

A meeting of the committee of the Anniversary Regatta was held in the Waitemata Hotel on Monday afternoon, at which the president, Mr J. H. Witheford, M.H.R., presided, there being a full attendance of members. The chairman said that, with a desire to make the anniversary regatta of 1904 as great a success as possible, and to endeavour to make it of an intercolonial character, he had sent a telegram to the Premier, Sir J. G. Ward, and Hon. J. Carroll for their patronage and assistance in regard to railway concessions and Maori attendance to help to make the next Auckland annual regatta an event of colonial importance to draw visitors from all parts of the colony and Australia. Replies had been received from each promising to give the matter their full attention. It was resolved to make a. further application to the Auckland Harbour Board re a donation to the funds of the regatta, and to inform the Board that the letter sent to the Board at its last meeting by Mr Witheford was quite in accordance with the wishes of the committee. It was decided to hold another meeting of the committee on July 2.